How to Use redound in a Sentence

redound

verb
  • But at the end of the day, the plaudits must redound to the patriarch.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 12 Apr. 2017
  • But once the projects are built, the benefits redound to private enterprise.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • If a person wants to use drugs, the thinking goes, the impacts of those choices redound almost entirely on him.
    — Jeff Eager, National Review, 7 Feb. 2022
  • That heritage has given him standing with immigrant activists, bona fides that can redound to his benefit.
    — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
  • When a patient makes a prudent health care decision, the financial benefit shouldn’t redound to someone else, or the group as a whole.
    — Jared Rhoads, STAT, 10 Feb. 2026
  • None of which—at first—seemed to have redounded negatively on her burgeoning social-media career.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • Kennedy spent the fall of ’56 campaigning for Stevenson but picked his own venues, ones that could redound to his benefit four years later.
    — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • Whether the pursuit of private happiness reliably redounds to the common moral good is a separate question.
    — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • That benefit would redound worldwide, shaping a far larger share of global climate pollution.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Whether responsibility for such a consequential move will redound to their favor remains to be seen.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • These are things that ultimately would redound in favor of our collective security.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2022
  • His accomplishments–a massive corporate tax cut, a strong stock market–have largely redounded to the benefit of the bankers and fat cats.
    — Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Every journalist knows this red-faced feeling, a mix of triumph and guilt, of securing the story that will redound glory unto them, not the subject.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Manchin's retirement could redound to Republicans' benefit in those races, too.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Uber’s recent misfortunes appear to be redounding to Lyft’s benefit.
    — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 15 Sep. 2017
  • In this roundabout way, the pledge would redound to China’s benefit, too, as long as Beijing truly does not wish to use force to annex Taiwan.
    — Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2025
  • If anything, paychecks in desirable jobs would be free to shrink to honorarium size, and choice opportunity would again redound to the rich, for whom the shrinkage would not mean very much.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2014
  • Fear and instability redound to the benefit of authoritarians, so violence done in the name of left-wing causes serves right-wing ends.
    — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
  • If anything, Election Day controversies are most likely to redound to the party’s benefit.
    — Nick Tabor, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2022
  • But the economic and political ripple effects of the war soon redounded to the energy giants’ benefit.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Not everyone wants to be watched while undertaking a long phone call, especially at home where neither clothes nor surroundings redound to most people’s advantage.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Crypto mining consumes more electricity than many countries, but its benefits redound only to the miner and parties to the transaction.
    — Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • And, in the short-term this may also redound to the benefit of those who argue for the benefits of genetic diversity through random mating across populations.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2013
  • All ticket sales and proceeds from my auctioning myself off for language performances and poker lessons will redound to NCRT.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Now that Republicans have reversed their position once again, also in a way that happens to redound to their political benefit, the answer seems a little more clear.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Stabilizing those loads will also redound to the benefit of the grid, which may eventually convince utilities to adopt the technology at a broader level.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 5 June 2018
  • China’s success redounds to American companies, and so will American success to redound to the Chinese.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
  • What’s interesting about these and other radical acts of the Roberts Court, though, is that Democrats have watched the political fallout redound to their benefit.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • What’s interesting about these and other radical acts of the Roberts Court, though, is that Democrats have watched the political fallout redound to their benefit.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Success would benefit China’s economic progress and redound to Xi’s political credit.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025

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